Mighty Morphin Power Rangers:
The Next Generation
Season 2: Minisode: 2
Zeltraxs' Discovery
The camera pans around a cavern outside of an old city. The city is abandoned by its former townsfolk. There has been no sighting of a human being living there. Not even near the old cavern. The waves splash in an aggressive clash towards the rocky walls. Water splashes inside of a cave. There is a green bluish glowing flash coming from the inside of the cave.
Cave
Zeltrax is destroying every part of the rocky room. Pointy rocks fall down from the ceiling hitting the ground, they break into bits of pieces.
Zeltrax is angry with rage, he stands there feeling confused. He is thankful to be free from Grande Morevils control. But he is flabbergasted with the truth of his hiring by Anton Mercer. He wonders what General Kinz is talking about? And what he said to him about Anton was true?
A Flashback Begins
Grande Morevils Lair - Control Room
Zeltrax is strapped on to a chair, he is restrained with an electro forcefield holding him down. He is unconscious and unable to move. It has been a few days since he was captured by Grande Morevil.
General Kinz walks into the room, he installs a flashdrive into the socket. Before he could load up the program he is about to play, he explains to Zeltrax what is going on. "Terrance Smith" he pauses, he then says "or should I say, Smitty!" he smirks at the being. Kinz continues "You have been betrayed by a colleague of yours who chose another over you." he says to the captured Zeltrax. Zeltraxs' fingers start to move, they move a bit in response to what Kinz is saying to him. Kinz notices Zeltrax trying to respond, he says to him "well, what I'm about to play is something that will blow you away. You will be interested by who you've been working for this whole time" he says with a smirk. Zeltrax listens but is unable to respond, he keeps moving his fingers. General Kinz says "I found some files, I was gonna play a video to brainwash you to be controlled by Morevil. But, this will be better" he plays the video, the screen loads up. Zeltrax is wondering what General Kinz is about to play on the screen.
The screen loads, it plays an old video of a young boy sitting down watching TV about an old inventor. The boy looks so familiar to Zeltrax.
Smith Residence - Living Room
A young boy named Terrance, sits in the living room watching TV. He is interested in a documentary involving an inventor named Thomas Edison. As he is engaged with the inventions that are shown on TV, his father comes home from the factory. After his father slams the door really hard, he goes over to the fridge and chugs his first can of beer. Terrance is shocked to see his dad drunk so early "dad, you promised you wouldn't get drunk before parents night!" he says to him. His dad bleaches "too bad boy! Promises will never happen in your life!" he yells in his drunken state. He sits on the sofa, it is filled with wrappers of food. The man glares at the TV, he wants to change the channel, but is too exhausted to do anything at all. Terrance asks his dad "can you please at least sober up. I wanted you to see my science project" he begs. His dad is unresponsive. Terrance begs "please Dad, I want you to see what I have been doing at school. My teachers are really impressed with me!" Terrances Dad passes out on the couch. Terrance shakes his dad, he is unable to wake up, he lies on the couch passed out cold. The boy leaves the house in frustration and goes over to the park.
Park
Terrance ties a firecracker to a squirrel, it explodes. Terrance smiles at the whole thing. "One of these days, I hope to at least be an inventor, or discover some ancient artifacts," he says to himself. He pours a few chemicals on the old rusty water fountain, it starts to melt, it melts halfway down until the bowl is no more. Smitty smirks at the melted steel bowl of the water fountain. A couple of boys notice Smitty melting a few steel objects. They're pretty impressed with him.
Flash Forward
Lake
A few years go by, Terrance Smith is a teenager. He is hanging out by the lake with a few new friends he has made. They're all drinking a few beers and chucking the glass bottles towards a tree. Terrance is liking his new name "Smitty" he is gazing at the lake. A girl comes over and snuggles with him. She leans on his chest smiling at him. The girl says to him "I brought you a beer." Smitty smiles at her "thank you Britt. You're a real trophy" he says, taking the bottle from her. Two guys named Chip and Dale both chug the beer bottles to see who can finish first. Chip wins the chugging competition. Dale is thankful he can drink his problems away. Both of them chuck the bottles towards the tree, the bottles shatter into millions of pieces.
Smitty cuddles with Britt, they both gaze at the lake. Both Chip and Dale watch their friends Dani and Frank sprint in their drunken state. Smitty asks Britt if they could go somewhere private. Britt smiles at the idea, she goes with him. They leave the bed of the pickup truck. Both Smitty and Britt chuck the bottles at the tree, one of the bottles hits the girl in the head, she just finished peeing on the tree, she falls down, but gets back up. Britt says to Smitty "Mia never feels pain until she sobers up." Mia, in her drunken state, yells out to the crowd "lets go skinnydipping!" the crowd roars in excitement.
Woods
Both Smitty and Britt walk into the woods, they go really deep until they are unable to hear the sounds of people cheering and roaring with excitement.
As they walk into the middle of the woods, they start to talk. Smitty and Britt kiss, "I got that offer for RIT. A full ride scholarship for science." Britt smiles at Smitty, feeling excited for him, she asks him "are you going to take it?" Smitty responds "no" Britt gets mad at him "no?" she asks him. Smitty responds "I wanna be with you. Not up at Rochester with strangers!" he holds her hands while saying this. Britt gets mad "you have opportunities! You're a genius! Don't waste your talents being here!" she yells at him. Smitty responds "But I wanna be here! You're my opportunity!" Britt scolds him "no, I cannot let you waste this! You're going to that school! You're going to be a brilliant scientist! You're gonna be the first in your family to go to college!" Smitty argues with Britt "but I can't leave! I have you, I have our friends! I have all of you! I can't leave you all for nothing!" he says to her. Britt lectures him "Terrance Smith! Ever since your father passed away and your mother died of childbirth, you've been nothing but rejected by everyone. If Chip and Dale didn't find you melting that fountain. You wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be an item! You've been an exceptional student at our school. Winning science fairs, getting high scores on SATs and ACTs, even that essay on dinosaur fossils was framed by Mr. Rogers! You cannot let all of this talent go to waste!" she yells. Britt says one final sentence to him "you are going to RIT and you are going to be a wonderful scientist!" she says to him. Smitty asks her, feeling unconfident about himself "what if I don't?" Britt responds, "then you're gonna miss out on these!" she lifts up her shirt, flashing Smitty her boobs. Smitty is astonished by what he saw, he grabs Britt by the arm and kisses her, he says to her "RIT Tigers baby!" they both undress each other and have sex in the middle of the woods.
Flash Forward
RIT - Smittys Dorm
Smitty is into his Second Year at Rochester Institute of Technology. It is the start of the spring semester. He hangs out in his dorm, watching tv, with homework on the edge of his bed while drinking a bottle of coca-cola. As he is taking his break from homework, he gets a knock on his door. He opens it, a guy with a shaggy mohawk says to him "it's for you Smitty", while pointing down the hallway, it is someone on the phone. Smitty leaves his dorm to go pick up the phone in the middle of the hallway.
RIT - Smittys Dorm - Hallway
Smitty picks up the phone, he wonders who this is? He finds out that this is a call from Britts Mom, he listens in on the call, his face goes from happy to shocked, he is not liking what he is hearing on the other side of the line.
Hospital
Terrance takes a plane ride all the way back to his hometown. He rushes over to the hospital, he finds Britt lying down in the hospital bed. Smitty is horrified to see her lying down there. She is losing a bit of hair and her skin is very pale. She looks over to see Smitty coming into the room. "T-terrance… you're here?" she asks in surprise. Smitty is shocked to see her in this condition "Brittany? Why didn't you tell me you were sick?" he asks her. Britt responds "I-I I didn't want you to worry. I wanted you to succeed…." she says to him. Smitty is shocked "your mom called! Why didn't you tell me this a few months ago?!" he asks her. "I didn't want you to hold back. You're doing so well. I don't want you to end up heartbroken and dead" Britt says to him. Smitty responds "Brittany, please. You need me! I wanna spend time with you!" he begs "please Britt. We need each other." Britt is silent, she hugs him really tight. She hates that Smitty skipped out on college, but is really happy to have him for the rest of her life.
A week goes by, Britt has passed away. Smitty is all alone, he has nobody to help him.
RIT - Campus
Smitty is about to give up on himself, he goes into a big depression. He then sees a flyer about an internship for an archaeologist, run by Mercer Industries. He remembers signing up for it before he abandoned his college life for Britt.
His advisor sees Smitty standing out there, looking at the flyer. His advisor grabs his attention, calling out for him. Terrance notices his advisor calling out for him. He looks over to see a smile on his face. His advisor tells him "Terrance, you've got a call from Mercer Industries. You've got the internship!" Terrance is shocked, he is surprised to hear this.
Mercer Labs
Four Years go by, Terrance has his Degree in Biology and Archaeology with a Minor in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is proud of his accomplishment, but is still lonely since his first ever girlfriend passed away.
He is discovering more and more dinosaur dna, along with his colleague Tommy Oliver. Tommy is working on his PHD while working with the group. Smitty looks up to Anton as a role model, learning from him and gaining knowledge from him like a father he's never had.
Terrance is hoping to work fulltime for Mercer Industries, he can feel it through his veins. He's been working for Anton since his summer internship back at college. He hopes to go on the island with his boss to work on more dinosaur dna and maybe using it to help with todays technology.
He notices that Tommy has been chatting with Anton. In his point of view, he looks at it as if Tommy is kissing up to Anton. Smitty scuffs at Tommy, knowing that Tommy isn't going to get the job by kissing up to him. Terrance put a lot of hard work into his discoveries, even trying to make some robotic technology from his own experiments. Anton is taking a liking to the experiments, inspiring to create his own bio experiments as well.
What Tommy and Anton are unaware of is Smittys personal life. How long he's been holding on to his own losses. Smitty still holds on to his fallen girlfriend, he hasn't been with a girl since Britt passed away. He has become distant from everyone at college. Even distant from his old friends that he used to hangout with. Some of them have moved on with their lives while others just lost touch with him. Smitty has never chatted with anyone about his own problems, he keeps things bottled up.
Though he does become distant towards others, Smitty does pretend to befriend Tommy for his own doings. Even being partnered up for other projects that Anton assigned him to do. Tommy thinks that Smitty is just being a great friend reaching out towards him. But Smitty hopes to find some sort of weakness to steal his ideas and claim it as his own.
He and Tommy were both called into the office of Anton Mercer. They both head over to meet up with Anton.
Mercer Labs - Office
Smitty comes inside and sees Tommy sitting down in a chair, he acts cool and sits on the chair like he is a very important person. He says to Tommy "you know, he's only gonna hire one of us! So you better get packing before you get too excited." Tommy ignores what Smitty is saying, thinking that Smitty is only making a joke.
Anton Mercer steps into his office, he takes a breather and looks at his top two colleagues. He says "thank you for joining me. This isn't easy, but I can only hire one of you to work for me."
Flash Forward
Laboratory
Years Later, Smitty is working at another lab. Tommy was hired over him, making himself miserable. It took a year for Smitty to find a new job, he finally gets hired but at a dangerous lab. The lab takes place in a populated town, many people work at this laboratory. Smitty does his best to work on his assignments, but is unable to adapt to being turned down by his lifelong role model, Anton. He wanted to work on dinosaurs and how they can be able to work in real life. He even had some of his ideas taken away from him by Anton and Tommy.
Late at night, Terrance is working on a lab experiment, he is about to create something for the company, but drops the test tube, resembling an explosion. Smitty is badly injured, the lab is destroyed.
The Laboratory is shut down, resulting in the other workers losing their jobs. However a mutated humanoid dinosaur is curious about the lab and steals a few objects for himself. While there, he discovers a badly injured man who is unable to move. He somehow breathes, but his body is badly damaged. The Mutated Dinosaur takes the body and rebuilds him. Smitty has a new name and identity, he is now known as, Zeltrax.
The Flashback Ends
Grande Morevils Lair - Control Room
General Kinz stops the video, he says to him "see, you have been working for Anton Mercer. Only as a cyborg!" He then comes closer and says "I can free you and take you out of control, but you'll have to do something for me" he says to him.
Flash Forward
Grande Morevils Lair - Filing Room
Zeltrax gets ahold of the files. He grabs the folder of General Kinz, containing some information about him. He grabs a few more files of Metallic Grant, Lady Darcine, and Telegator. Zeltrax nods at General Kinz "this is all of the files!" he says to him. Kinz smiles "Good, once you get into battle, that is when I will take you off of Grande Morevils control. You can take the equipment back to your lab and use it for your own advantage!" he says to him.
Flashback Ends
Bay
Zeltrax leaves the cave, he knows that he will have to go back to Angel Grove to take down Tara Oliver. But for now, he uses the equipment he stole from Grande Morevil and heads over to the abandoned laboratory.
THE END